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Dec. 1,1925. 1,563,784

M. J. PEPFARD TRUNK.

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MAYME J PEPPARD, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

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Application filed July 18, 1921. Serial No. 485,445.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAYME J. PnrrAnD, a citizen of the United States, resident of Minneapolis, county of Hennepin, State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trunks, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide improved means for supporting clothes hangers in a wardrobe trunk and permitting them to be pulled out to a point where access to the clothing can be readily obtained for the purpose of removing the garments from the hangers or replacing them thereon.

A further object is to provide means for supporting the clothes hangers of the trunk in such a way that when the trunk is being packed, the hangers with the clothes thereon can. be easily and quickly pushed into the wardrobe portion of the trunk and secured.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the following detailed description.

The invention consists generally in various constructions and combinations, all as hereina'fter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a wardrobe trunk embodying my invention, showing the wardrobe compartment and the door leading thereto and the supports for the garment hangers,

Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 22 of Figure 3,

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view on the line 3--3 of Figure 2,

Figure is a sectional view on the line 4l:-l of Figure 2,

Figure 5 is sectional view on the line 5-5 of Figure 1,

Figure 6 is a sectional view on the line 66 of Figure 5.

In the drawing, 2 represents a wardrobe trunk, having a wardrobe compartment 3 in the rear thereof, provided with a door 4. A locking device 5 is provided for securing the door in its closed position. I do not describe the details of this locking device, as it forms the subject matter of a companion application for Letters Patent of the United States herewith.

In the upper part of the wardrobe compartment, I provide channel rails 6 supported on brackets 7 and'having flanges 8. lVithin these channel rails, which are normally stationary, I provide sliding channel rails 9 telescoping with the rails 6 and provided with a cross bar 10 for holding the rails in parallel relation. Straps 11 connect this cross bar 10 with a similar bar 12 at the inner side of the compartment, said straps being loose and flexible and allowing the rails 9 to be moved inwardly to a point within the ward robe and limiting the outward movement of these rails, as shown in Figure 2. Bars 13 are mounted within the rails 9 and have loops 1 1 thereon connected by straps 15 with the cross bar 10 and limiting the outward movement of the bars. mounted on the bars 13 and support parallel rods 17 on which garment hangers 18 may be suspended. Guard rods 19 are mounted on the brackets 16 above the rods 17 for holding the garment hangers in place and Brackets 16 are N preventing them from becoming separated from the supporting rods when the trunk is inverted or roughly handled... The rods 17 are provided with extensions 20 hinged at 21 thereto and adapted to swing to a position at right angles to the rods when the trunk is closed for the purpose of allowing the supports for the garments to be pushed into the wardrobe, or the extensions 20 may be swung out to a position in alignment with the rods 17, forming a continuation thereof and allowing the garment hangers to be pushed out on the extensions, as indicated by dotted lines in Figure 2, and permit the user of the trunk to have ready access to the garments and to open up the space between the hangers to allow the free circulation of air between and around the hangers and the garments thereon. One of the extensions 20 has a coilec spring 23 therein and a pin 24 normally projected by said spring and having a finger grip 25 that is slidable in a slot 26. Normally, this pin projects into a socket 27 in the other section of the extension 20 and may be locked therein by a clamping screw 28. When the pin 2 1 is withdrawn against the tension of the spring 23, the extensions 20 may be moved back and forth to assume the position indicated by full lines in Figure 2, ready to be pushed into the compartment of the wardrobe or swungontwardly to form a continuation of the rod 17, as indicated by dotted lines in said figure. Some of the hangers are provided with straps 29 connecting depending members 30 between which dress skirts and the like may be strapped and held and prevented from becoming wrinkled or creased.

In using the device, the rails are pulled out to the position shown in Figure 2, the extensions 20 are then swung around into alignment with the rods 17', and the-hangers may then be pulled out on the extensions and separated so that convenient access may be had to any of them and theclothes thereon.

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination, with a trunk having a wardrobe compartment, of stationary guides mounted therein, rails slidable in said guides, a cross rod between said rails, tlexi ble means connecting said rod with said guides for limiting the outward movement of said rails, bars slidably supported'by said rails and having flexible means connecting: thenrwith said rod for limiting the outward movement of said bars, and garnienthangers supported by said bars.

2. The combination, with a trunk having a wardrobe compartment, of garment hanger supports mounted for movement to points within and without said compartment, rods mounted transversely of said supports, and sections hinged at the ends of said rods and adapted to form longitudinal continuations thereof.

8. The combination with a trunk having a wardrobe compartment, of rails mounted to slide back and forth in said compartment, rods supported by said rails transversely thereof, and adapted to be moved with said rails to a point outside said compartment, and extensions for said rods hinged to one end thereof at one side of said rails and adapted to beswung inwardly to a position parallel with said rails and at right angles to said rods or outwardly to form lateral continuations of said rods.

t. The combination with a trunk having a wardrobe coimpa-rtment, of garment hanger supports mounted for movement to pass within and without said,compartment, rods ,mounted transversely of said supports and adapted to be moved therewith to a point outside said compartment, and hinged extensions adapted toreceive garment hangers and form longitudinal continuations of said rods.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 13th day of July, 1921.

MAYME J. PEPPAIRI). 

